OBJECTIVE To examine food and nutrient availability in New Zealand using supermarket sales data in conjunction with a brand-specific supermarket food composition database (SFD). DESIGN The SFD was developed by selecting the top-selling supermarket food products and linking them to food composition data from a variety of sources, before merging with individualised sales data. Supermarket food ...

Marketers have been interested in diffusion of new products since Bass (1969). One of the main objectives inherent in diffusion studies is to explain the sales pattern of new products over time. Many factors can influence sales patterns including firm’s marketing strategies, consumer characteristics in the market, consumer expectations of utility from the products, value of the product in conju...

Firms often determine whether or not to make components common across products by focusing on the manufacturing and sales of new products only. However, component commonality decisions that ignore remanufacturing can adversely affect the profitability of the firm. In this paper, we analyze how remanufacturing could reverse the OEM’s commonality decision that is based on the manufacturing and sa...

a healthcare system has been the most important priority for all governments worldwide. biotechnology products have affected the promotion of health care over the last thirty years. during the last several decades, iran has achieved significant success in extending healthcare to the rural areas and in reducing the rates of infant mortality and increasing population growth. biomedical technology...

Clustering is an important data mining technique where we will be interested in maximizing intracluster distance and also minimizing intercluster distance. We have utilized clustering techniques for detecting deviation in product sales and also to identify and compare sales over a particular period of time. Clustering is suited to group items that seem to fall naturally together, when there is ...